#yellb

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oh my god it’s literally been over 2 years since I added something to my m/f rec tag. that’s hysterical.

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Crocman will soon be Crocdad

Tracer is based on Yellb’s artwork (on DeviantArt) of her,it’s so good! Also it’s heavily based on it because it’s my first time drawing a pregnant woman

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this is a very tense and dramatic moment but at the same time. I do think it’s very funny. rosen he does NOT give a shit whatever you did or didn’t do, he’s already decided you can do whatever you want forever. it’s fine.

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your eternal lies just finished, it’s been a while since I’ve enjoyed an m/f webtoon all the way through. mid-century/fantasy fusion, the fl is a woman who’s being transported to Mega Jail for her crimes of being easy to scapegoat as a witch the empire wants dead, the ml is a War Hero who’s charged with delivering her to Mega Jail.

the fl and ml are mutually unhinged and mutually obsessed, and it’s done with a lot of heated drama—I feel like a lot of m/f can be pretty weak with heated drama because the writing relies way too much on heteronormativity and doesn’t dive that deep into legitimately interesting narrative/thematic parallels, or the power dynamics are off in an unenjoyable way, but your eternal lies does a really good job with the fl and ml having solid parallels in terms of A Person Who Was Made Into A Symbol By The Empire. and the mutual obsession is done in a fun way too, it’s very. [delighted] oh you guys have like the exact same problem.

anyway this is the main couple

and this is also the main couple

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oh yeah I really liked the vibes & sentiment here

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so this scene’s in chapter 47

and I was like. you know what this reminds me of.

the parts of chapter 12-13 where ian just goes like She’s Just Like Me For Real and we find out he has this extremely normal scrapbook dedicated to every article that mentions rosen because he desperately wanted her to escape the empire and keep being the sole survivor of a town he failed to save

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I think charming the duke of the north and your eternal lies fit very well in the villainess classification. while cdn’s fl is an actress and Not Actually A Villainess she’s actively putting on a front and isn’t in like… a victimhood framing. white lotus framing. she’s just some guy. and I like how… ok a lot of wannabe villainess series kind of go for this empty shallow Epic Girlboss Clapback kinda vibe where everything an fl does is justified and clever and elegant. whereas the fl in cdn can really sell manipulating the situation and being ruthless. I think what I like is the performance of it. The theatricality of it. The Commitment. all for an audience of one. look at this ok I’m gonna walk you through it

rinha gets served essentially rotten food when alone and goes full Malicious Compliance with it

the maid gets For Real Edible food made & Rinha takes the opportunity to pull this

It is COMPLETELY unnecessary. in the wannabe villainess series you get the sense that the fl is pushed to the brink, or that she Has No Choice, but rinha could’ve very easily resolved this without going the psychological warfare route. I love this. I didn’t have a specific example for yel but fl there also has just some guy energy and while she definitely would not be doing All Of This if she didn’t have to, she’s just so good at going to extremes. woman who tricks a guy into feeding here something she’s deathly allergic to and internally goes “HEH… [spitting blood] ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN.” And It Was

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so what are your thoughts on eternal lies's ending?

I think it served the narrative, it didn’t undermine the themes and it allowed for the emotional climax and resolution of Heated Drama. very expected ending that works.

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your eternal lies continues to be interesting, really shows that an m/f couple can in fact have heated drama. what a concept. anyway I do like that Public Enemy Number One is the only person with any capacity to understand what The Empire’s Darling War Hero might be experiencing as someone on an unwanted pedestal, and I’m also still enjoying that she has NO idea that he’s been rooting for her for YEARS. they have such complicated one-sided relationships with each other lmao

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resubbed to catch up on eternal lies, I love this random side character

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now that’s what I call romance

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oh I should dig into the misc tag and re-tag your eternal lies there’s that one long post explaining the dynamic that I absolutely cannot replicate bc it was so long

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I love having a meticulously organized digital diary where more often than not I can hunt down what past me had to say about something. I do NOT remember having this thought but 5 months ago past me was right about the metanarrative parallels between war hero/public enemy #1 from a mid century fantasy setting and gloomy nerd/popular gyaru from a contemporary japanese high school setting

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I’m gonna sound nuts for a second. what’s drawing me to eternal lies is the same thing that grabbed me about failed princesses. there’s this specific obsession I really like that hinges on You Cannot Step Out Of Your Role. again, gonna sound nuts. ian and kurokawa both occupy a similar position in this one-sided and unspoken admiration; kurokawa admires fujishiro as a princess and ian admires rosen as a villain. the admiration fills a very specific void; kurokawa was never able to attain The Princess Role (either outshined or forcibly pushed out of the spotlight) and ian was never able to escape the label of hero. for kurokawa, if fujishiro were to ever falter in her role of princess (i.e. despair, lose her will) that would be Unforgivable because it would make kurokawa’s acceptance of her role meaningless. for ian, rosen losing her will and losing to the empire takes away his narrative foil (in terms of how the empire presents them as hero/villain) which means he has to bear the weight of being a symbolic figure alone. also both kurokawa and ian would not have interfered with fujishiro or rosen’s narrative if they were actually given a choice. basically I guess I like the dynamic of ‘one-sided metanarrative obsession’? lol